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Orlando Cancels Free WiFi Project

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-internet-for-you dept.

EvilStein writes "According to local news, the City of Orlando has cancelled the city WiFi project. The 6 month pilot program ran for 17 months instead of the planned 6, but in the end, it was costing the city too much money and very few people were using the service. Might other municipal WiFi projects go the same way?"

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  1. Noooooooo they can't by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone tell them to stop, I'm in the middle of dow$£$"%[NO-CARRIER]

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. Why does government need to do this? by toupsie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do taxpayers need to fund free WiFi when you can just get it from your neighbor's right out of the box, default install Linksys/Netgear/Airport router?

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    Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
  3. I live in Orlando... by xENoLocO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... and I've never heard of this.

    Why not? I'm a technically inclined 20 something who would have used this, had I known about it.

    I think that is the real problem here. Their target demographic didnt even know about it!

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    "The need to build the internet comes from something inside us, something programmed... something we can't resist."
  4. Re:not economically feasible not a surprise by deep44 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    When I go to lunch I go to eat, talk with my wife, and just mellow out. Why would I want to surf the net at lunch? Why would I want to surf the net at a park?
    Most people wouldn't. The point is, why work from the office when you can work from the park? ..or a coffee shop? ..or _anywhere_ in the city of Orlando?

    When I was a kid, my parents bought their first cordless phone, replacing an old rotary phone in our living room. My Mom would always sit right next to the cordless basestation when she used it- not because she doubted the technology; it was just what she was accustomed to doing.

    I think you see my point. Orlando was just a little ahead of the curve on this one..